KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Tuesday announced head money for the eight absconders in the Safoora Goth carnage case.The chief minister has set Rs2.5 million as head money for......

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel on Tuesday said his country is capable of accommodating at least 500,000 refugees a year for several years and it expected more than 800,000 asylum-seekers this......

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to follow case proceedings of the NA-122 case in the Supreme Court following a plea filed by Sardar Ayaz Sadiq challenging the verdict of the......

PARIS: Thomas Mueller and Kyle Lafferty's careers are worlds apart in terms of achievement but on Monday both players scored vital goals that took Germany and Northern Ireland respectively to within......

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed federal and provincial governments to adopt Urdu as official language in the country.Announcing the verdict on petition filed by Advocate Kokab Iqbal,......

Some 400,000 solar panels, spread over 200 hectares of flat desert, glare defiantly at the sun at what is known as the Quaid-e-Azam Solar Power Park (QASP) in Cholistan Desert, Punjab, named after......

SANAA: The Yemen war is entering a new and potentially decisive phase as Gulf nations build up ground forces to battle rebels in the country's north and rebel-held capital, analysts say.After five......

Mohammad Ali Bogra was serving as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States when Governor-General Ghulam Mohammad nominated him Prime Minister. He succeeded Khawaja Nazimuddin, who had already been......

PESHAWAR: Two new polio cases were been reported in Khyber Agency on Tuesday, taking the total number of registered polio cases in Pakistan this year to 32.According to the Chief Minister's Polio......

NEW DELHI: Indian police said Tuesday they had arrested six men after a teenager alleged she was gang-raped after being lured to a hotel on the promise of a job.The 17-year-old girl told police she......

In a surprising first, the Sindh Censor Board has spoken against the running of a film not for objectionable content, but for its poor production quality. The film in question is Swaarangi, and its......

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called bankers and billionaires to his residence on Tuesday to brainstorm on how India can manage global economic turbulence, including opportunities......

ANKARA: Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish jets have carried out air strikes against a group of Kurdish rebels as well as the militants' camps in northern Iraq killing at least 40 rebels......

MANCHESTER: India will bid to hold a future under-20 World Cup to build on the success of its new Super League and staging the under-17 World Cup in two years' time, a top official said.All India......

DES MOINES: The parents of a girl who reported being inappropriately touched by a man, later identified as a Pakistani citizen, while flying alone from New York to Iowa have sued the man and American......

This year's crop of films have played their part in putting Pakistani cinema on the map. As our films prepare to hit the festival circuit and some gear for international release, their directors and......

NEW YORK: Andy Murray crashed out of the US Open in the fourth round Monday, his earliest Grand Slam exit in five years, while 17-time major winner Roger Federer advanced to the quarter-finals.South......

ISLAMABAD: Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Tuesday said Pakistan would raise the issue of 'unprovoked' Indian firing across the Line of Control......

DHARAN/KARACHI: There are no recognisable football fields, no players, and just a rusting goalpost at Pakistan's Hawkesbay training centre, built with a $500,000 FIFA grant on a windswept plot by the......

To kiss or not to kiss is a popular question in Bollywood, and superstar Salman Khan has given his two cents on the matter: for him, kissing scenes are not necessary in a film.The 49-year-old actor,......

LAHORE: A year after leading major street protests aimed at toppling the Pakistani government, populist preacher Tahirul Qadri says he has turned back to religion, but remains prepared to re-launch......

LANDI KOTAL: The Khyber Agency political administration on Monday set a three-day deadline to the Sipah tribe of Bara to surrender all its wanted members and deposit the fine of Rs120 million.The......

PESHAWAR: Tourism Corporation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will sponsor a motorcycle rally at the most scenic tourist destination of the province to promote tourism and sports.A press release issued here on......

MANSEHRA: The disgruntled leaders and workers of PTI Batagram chapter on Monday blocked the Karakoram Highway for over two hours to demand expulsion of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and Senator Azam......

KHAR: The local political administration on Sunday night arrested two people after seizing a huge cache of explosives and bomb-making material from a truck in Khar tehsil.An administration official......

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rasheed on Monday said completion of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will increase trade between the two countries manifold.He......

ISLAMABAD: Robbers and thieves struck at fi ve different places and made off with cash and valuables, police said here on Monday.In the fi rst incident, two persons riding on a motorcycle intercepted......

ISLAMABAD: Dozens of private schools operators on Tuesday staged a protest to press the government to take step for promotion of education.The protesters, who gathered here in front of the National......

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has allowed the Healthcare Commission (HCC) to take action against illegal clinics and hospitals, in collaboration with the district administration, to......

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed the petition of former Gilgit-Baltistan Council Secretariat deputy secretary Ehsanul Haq against the appointment of another civil servant......

CHARSADDA: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq on Monday said the government shouldn’t hold talks with India until Kashmir issue was resolved.“Kashmiris are our brothers, who need our moral......

ISLAMABAD: The additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ), Kamran Basharat Mufti, on Monday recused himself from the proceedings of the trial of former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf in......

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) put the successive governments’ declarations regarding shelter to the shelterless to test by asking the incumbent federal and provincial governments on Monday to......

RAWALPINDI: The Airport Security Force (ASF) foiled an attempt to smuggle US dollars to China and detained a Chinese national, Jia Cmao, at Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Monday, a security......

LAHORE: Former National Assembly speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Monday challenged the decision of the election tribunal about by-election in his constituency (NA-122) before the Supreme Court.In an......

LAHORE: PML-Q senior leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has asked opposition parties to remain firm on their stance of boycotting the local government elections until resignation of the sitting members of......

LAHORE: A member of a proscribed organisation, convicted for sectarian killing by a military court, has challenged his death sentence before the Lahore High Court.The military court had awarded death......

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has said the PML-N is trying to “escape” from by-elections for being afraid of its might and popularity among the masses and announced becoming a party in......

LAHORE: Local government amended bill and the Okara University bill could not be tabled in the Punjab Assembly on Monday because of lack of quorum.As the proceedings began much behind its scheduled......

The ongoing campaign against unhygienic food and meat has prompted people to either avoid eating out or look for some alternative menu such as vegetables and lentils.Restaurants and food outlets in......

LAHORE: Nights have gone far cooler in the deserts of Dera Ghazi Khan indicating that winter is just around the corner, and as winter reaches closer to season calendar poachers of falcons, quails and......

LAHORE: Various teams of the city district government’s livestock wing on Monday seized 450kg of unhygienic meat and had four butchers arrested in various parts of the city.The teams, according to......

LAHORE: Punjab University’s Institute of Education and Research (IER) Assistant Professor Dr Abida Nasreen has been suspended from service for three months for publication of wrong map of Pakistan on......

LAHORE: The idea of a movie on Saadat Hasan Manto came during his centenary year celebrations in 2012 and as a tribute to him, said Sarmad Sultan Khoosat who has directed the film and also played the......

LAHORE: Important administrative and operational matters in the Punjab Excise and Taxation department have been pending after the transfer of director general (DG) Ahmad Aziz Tarar on Aug 26.The post......

ANOTHER year, another September and one’s mind goes back half a century.The peels of sirens giving the air raid warning; roaring fighter planes engaged in deadly dogfights; the crackling of machine......

A LEADING Republican presidential candidate says the US should not use foreign aid to buy friends, noting that such efforts to buy the friendship of Pakistani people have failed (Aug 15). When he was......

Independence Day (Aug 14) has passed. It reminded us of the great sacrifices made by our ancestors to get a piece of land where we could freely follow our faith, and live in peace.My late father used......

SINCE the start of the Karachi Operation, targeted killings seemed to have dropped gradually but again the killing spree has started as two traffic constables were shot of whom one died and the other......

TAXILA: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNA Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Monday ruled out free and fair local bodies’ election under the present four members of the Election Commission of Pakistan.Talking to......

ISLAMABAD: Living with a disease is hard enough, but living with HIV – in a conservative country like Pakistan – can be even more problematic.According to one health care professional, “Even doctors......

ISLAMABAD: The spouse of a suspect in the FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) prosecutor murder case on Monday filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the alleged disappearance of......

SIALKOT: After a 15-year-old boy was found murdered at a local seminary on Monday, police arrested three clerics of the religious school for killing the boy after subjecting him to rape.The body of......

FAISALABAD: A report by a medical board of the District Headquarters Hospital says Sheraz Nawaz, held in a theft case on the complaint of ruling MPA Tahir Jamil, was brutally tortured in Mansoorabad......

BAHAWALPUR: The Baghdadul Jadid police claimed on Monday to have arrested the main suspect involved in the rape case of a school boy.The public relations officer of the DPO said the main suspect was......

HYDERABAD: National Accou­n­­t­a­bility Court Judge Aijaz Ali Khaskheli on Monday issued a show-cause notice to the director general of NAB asking him as to why contempt of court proceedings should......

KARACHI: An official crackdown on milk sellers on Monday landed many of them behind bars for arbitrarily enhancing milk prices once again by Rs10 per litre, yet most people may have to purchase the......

KARACHI: On the occasion of the 1965 war golden jubilee, Air Force Day was celebrated by unveiling a martyrs’ monument at the PAF Museum and laying of a wreath on the grave of Pilot Officer Rashid......

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court confirmed on Monday interim pre-arrest bail of former home minister Dr Zulfikar Ali Mirza in two more cases.The disgruntled and disowned leader of the Pakistan Peoples......

EXHIBITIONSAn exhibition of works by Roohi S. Ahmed opens at Koel at 5pm. The show titled ‘Liminal Space’ will remain open till Sept 22.Launch of publication Exhausted Geographies, an experimental......

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday directed the provincial authorities to file their respective comments on a constitutional petition challenging an amendment to the Sindh Local Government Act......

KARACHI: Criticising the alleged mismanagement in the Pakistan International Airlines, a pilots’ body on Monday urged the authorities to appoint qualified and experienced people to run the national......

THATTA: A blanket ban on all kinds of transactions involving land and closure of record of rights of Sujawal district for about five months has created a host of problems for the general public who......

SUKKUR: Sukkur police have been accused of killing three members of a family extra-judicially in a fake encounter and getting them buried through Edhi volunteers three days ago. Another three members......

SUKKUR: An encounter between criminals and a Rangers-police team in Nawab Jagirani village of Kandhkot-Kashmore district left one Rangers man dead and another wounded on Monday.According to ASI Athar......

HYDERABAD: Speakers at a conference on Monday termed Pak-China friendship exemplary, saying that ties between the two countries would strengthen their all-weather strategic cooperative partnership as......

JERUSALEM: Some 13,000 Palestinian structures in the West Bank are currently under Israeli demolition orders, leaving residents and homes “in a state of chronic uncertainty and threat”, the UN said......

THOMAS Malory gave us Le Morte d’Arthur in the 15th century; TH White gave us The Once and Future King in the 20th. Now the actor and writer Ethan Hawke is due to provide his own take on chivalry in......

LONDON: Islamophobic and anti-Semitic hate crimes in London have soared over the last year, official figures released on Monday showed, with global events apparently contributing to the rise.Police......

KANDAHAR: An air attack has killed at least 11 Afghan police personnel in Helmand province, officials said on Monday, in the latest apparent case of “friendly fire”.An interior ministry spokesman......

BANGKOK: One of the two men arrested over last month’s deadly Bangkok bombing has admitted to a charge of possessing explosives, police said on Monday, in the first confession over the unprecedented......

MANCHESTER: England needs to move on from its Ashes obsession and start to focus on new goals like improving its “consistently woeful” record in the one-day game, English cricket chief Andrew Strauss......

CAPE TOWN: Holders Ivory Coast were held to a draw in their first match under new management in Sunday’s African Nations Cup qualifiers but former champions Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt and Zambia all......

ISLAMABAD: Mohammad Inam will represent Pakistan at the World Wrestling Championship scheduled to be held in Las Vegas, USA from Sept 7 to 12.Talking to APP, Arshad Sattar, secretary general of the......

LONDON: Peter Handscomb and John Hastings have been added to Australia’s squad for the remainder of the ongoing One-day International series against England, officials announced on Monday.The third......

KARACHI: The 6th Culligan Girls Senior & Junior Throwball Tournament 2015 begins at the City School DK Campus at Clifton here on Tuesday and will conclude on Saturday. The event is being organised by......

DHAKA: Pakistan, inspired by spinner Fayyaz Ahmed’s hat-trick, stormed into the final of ICRC international T-20 cricket tournament for people with physical disabilities after defeating India by 43......

LONDON: Former England batsman Vikram Solanki announced his retirement from cricket here on Monday. The 39-year-old played in 51 one-day internationals and three Twenty20 internationals for England......

NEW YORK: Serena Williams, chasing a calendar Grand Slam, advanced to a dramatic US Open quarter-final showdown with sister Venus on Sunday while a concussion forced Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard out of......

RAWALPINDI: The twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad brace for cricketing thrills and spills over the next eight days when the big boys of Pakistan cricket enter the fray at the start of the main......

MELBOURNE: The blazer worn by Australian cricketing great Donald Bradman during his first series as Test captain sold for A$132,000 (US$91,410) on Monday, local media reported.The green jacket with......

KARACHI: Farhan Altaf overpowered Sufiyan Shiwani without conceding a single point in a convincing 6-0, 6-0 victory to secure his place in the second round of men’s singles event in the third Indus......

LAHORE: All three golfers from the Garrison Golf Club, Lahore, have made places in the Pakistan junior team which will represent the country in the Nick Faldo Series final to be held at the Mission......

ISLAMABAD: Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) has asked the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to release refunds of taxpayers immediately.FTO observed a delay of 38 days in processing of refund claims of the......

BEIJING: China on Monday lowered last year’s growth figure, already the weakest in a quarter-century, days after worries about slowing expansion in the world’s second-largest economy caused global......

DUBAI: Iran hopes to bring its gas to the European Union by shipping liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Spain, Iran’s oil minister was quoted as saying on Monday at a news conference with his Spanish......

ISLAMABAD: The top civilian and military leadership – in a rare meeting with representatives of religious seminaries – made it abundantly clear on Monday that the government intended to register and......

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement said on Monday that it considered the Lahore High Court order banning the publication/broadcast of speeches and photographs of Altaf Hussain in contrast to the......

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to convene a session of the upper house of parliament next week.The Senate session is being convened from Sept 14 and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will attend the......

LAHORE: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced on Monday ending the politics of reconciliation towards the ruling PML-N, saying his party is a “party of resistance, not reconciliation”.The PPP......

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court directed advocates general of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday to submit reports on steps taken for welfare of minorities and also a plan for their security.A......

ISLAMABAD: A sub-committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has directed the managing director of Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) to register FIRs against the declared holders of fake......

ISLAMABAD: The head of legal department of Priv­ate Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB), Barrister Asghar Khan, tendered his resignation on Monday after developing differences over issues relating......

NEW DELHI: Indian army’s Kashmir-based northern command on Monday confirmed the life sentences of six army personnel, including two officers in a 2010 fake encounter case in Machil in the state’s......

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that religious seminaries will be allowed to open bank accounts in an effort to guard against illicit funding and ensure transparency of......

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court ordered the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and the Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) on Monday to ensure a complete blackout of all activities of......

MINGORA: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has said that terrorists will not be allowed to return to the Swat valley from where they have been driven out by committed soldiers of the Pakistan......

ISLAMABAD: The army claimed on Monday to have used for the first time the indigenously developed armed drone Burraq, killing three suspected terrorists in North Waziristan’s Shawal Valley.“First ever......

IN a contested Greek legend, Phryne was publicly disrobed during her trial for alleged impiety. The jurors were outraged by her condition and declared her innocent. In another Greek story, the Trojan......

THE Ittefaq Foundry & Works at Kot Lakhpat near Lahore was nationalised in January 1972 by the first PPP government and renamed Lahore Engineering & Foundry Ltd (Lefo). Soon thereafter, I started my......

OCCASIONALLY, high state functionaries do try and turn the spotlight on the chronic deficiencies of the state.Unhappily, the diagnoses tend to be rooted more in emotion than pragmatism or structural......

BUDAPEST: Hungary's defence minister, Hende Csaba resigned on Monday because the armed forces were being too slow in building a border fence to keep out thousands of refugees and migrants heading......